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His 30 years at the BBC were almost entirely in the news. He was successively a programme editor, news editor and Head of Newsgathering when the Corporation won many awards for its international news coverage. He merged radio and television news, and domestic and World Service newsgathering during
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and Global News in September 2004. He oversaw major restructuring of the World Service, and its opening of Arabic and Persian television, as well as commercial interactive services. He is a frequent contributor to radio and TV coverage of media issues and writes regularly for
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From 2012 until 2018 he led the International News Safety Institute for which he chaired an inquiry into the deaths of journalists around the world. From 2006 to 2009, he was Vice President of the
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this time, resulting in the world's largest broadcast news operation. He was acting Director of Sport in 2000, and became Director of News in 2001.
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is a British journalist, academic and a former BBC executive. He is Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at
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His non-executive roles have largely supported free speech and independent journalism. He is co-Chair of The
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and was formerly Chairman of the BBC's international charity, the World Service Trust (now
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He spent ten years on the management board of the BBC becoming successively Director of
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From 2010 until 2012, he was Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer of the
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agency. From January 2010 until 2017, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the
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Are Foreign Correspondents Redundant? The Changing Face of International News
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Sambrook defended in June/July 2003 what became the highly controversial
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knowingly exaggerated claims relating to Iraq's supposed possession of
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Global Teamwork: The Rise of Collaboration in Investigative Journalism
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Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at
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Reporting Dangerously: journalist killings, intimidation and security
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had been the source of the news item. He later gave evidence to the
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for six years and was a member of the leadership committee of the
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and represented public broadcasters on the advisory group to the
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Are Foreign Correspondents Redundant? (Reuters Institute)
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Cottle, Simon; Sambrook, Richard; Mosdell, Nick (2016).
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